As a supplier of a plastic degradation promoting additive we are here to help th manufacturers and the design engineers with their environmental needs. They can benefit from knowledge we have gained through more than 10 years of experience in the global green initiative.

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EcoPure is a biodegradable plastics additive that changes all that. When mixed into raw plastic at less than 1%, it allows that plastic to break down—but only when placed in a microbe rich environment, such as a landfill or compost facility.

World Centric provides high quality compostable food service disposables and food packaging products for use in schools, corporate cafeterias, restaurants, hospitals, parties etc. Our products are made annually renewable resources like corn, sugarcane, and wheat straw fiber. Sugar cane and wheat straw fiber are also discarded by-products of the agriculture industry and we are using this discarded fiber to make sustainable alternatives to plastics and styrofoam.

Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, PurEarth is one of the leading suppliers of eco-friendly quality products serving the commercial and retail industries as well as the municipal and government institutions around the world with sales expected to exceed USD $500 millions in 2011. Eco-friendly product line diversification has been a key factor in company's growth. Uncompromising product development and marketing research have produced additional top quality eco-friendly and bio-degradable product lines, which PurEarth has successfully sold, both within its core business sector, the food grade packaging, as well as into additional niche markets such as paper and board industries.

Cereplast, Inc. designs and manufactures proprietary starch-based, sustainable plastics created from breakthrough bio-plastics technology. These bio-resin replace a significant portion of petroleum-based additives with bio-based material such as starches from tapioca, corn, wheat and potatoes, meeting the demand from consumers and manufacturers for sustainable plastics.

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Cereplast Compostables: Starch-based Resins made from a blend of different renewable ressources, compostable in accordance with usual standards
Cereplast Sustainables: Biobased resins, which are capable of replacing 70% of the petroleum content used in traditional plastics
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Reducing petroleum in packaging reduces our consumption of oil, which is the primary objective of Trellis's product line - and the objective of sustainability. Therefore Trellis Earth produces plastic products, which are bio-degradable and compostable and partially made from renewable ressources.

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Bags and catering supply made from renewable and other ingredients; bio-degradable and compostable.

DaniMer Scientific focuses on the use of sustainably produced, renewable resources to improve people's lives and work. One of our goals is to reduce dependence on petroleum, enabling people and communities to benefit from environmentally friendly products.

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DaniMer Scientific resins are based primarily on polylactic acid (PLA) that is combined with other materials to form polymer alloys that are compostable and biodegradeable. DaniMer is offering special resins for extrusion coating, injection molding, thermoforming, extrusion lamination, films.

DuPont is a multinational chemical company and are offering their products in more than 90 countries. They developed Biomax resins for the bioplastics market.

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DuPont™ Biomax® resins and modifiers respond to consumers' growing demand for materials that allow them to make responsible choices. The portfolio of renewably sourced materials under the Biomax® brand provides an alternative to petroleum-based products, offering several important benefits, including reduced dependence on petroleum and reduction of the net production of greenhouse gases. And with today's innovative technologies, all this can be achieved without compromising performance. Also included under the Biomax® brand are performance-enhancing, petroleum-based or partially renewably sourced modifiers for other biobased materials available in the market today.

NatureWorks LLC is an independent company wholly owned by Cargill. Our company is the first to offer a family of commercially available biopolymers derived from 100 percent annually renewable resources with cost and performance that compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers. We apply our unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create the proprietary polylactide polymer marketed under the Ingeo™ brand name. NatureWorks LLC represents one of the largest efforts ever in green chemistry and biorefinery. Our manufacturing facility, located in Blair, Nebraska, USA, has a name plate capacity of 300 million pounds (140,000 metric tons) of Ingeo biopolymer. Our plant came online in 2002. In 2003, we built the world's largest lactic acid manufacturing facility to feed our polymer plant. Then in 2009 we opened a state-of-the-art applications lab, and announced we were assessing locations for a 2nd manufacturing plant. Today, with representatives in over 10 countries, NatureWorks LLC does business in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. We continue to work with converters, brandowners and retailers around the world to help introduce innovative eco-friendly products made with Ingeo plastics & fibers.

At The HallStar Company, we pride ourselves on delivering customized, cost-effective solutions for our customers. Our focus is on addressing our customers' unique needs, and in doing so HallStar will remain at the forefront of ester chemistry, an ever-changing industry. Our ability to invent and formulate with unique esters – ingredients vital to both the polymer additives and personal care sectors -- is based on over 50 years of esterification experience.

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Hallgreen: Biodegrable esther derivates and additives made from renewable ressources.

Founded in 1949 by J.D. Tatem, Plastic Suppliers, Inc. is an innovative, international film manufacturer that has produced high quality plastic film for nearly 60 years. This makes Plastic Suppliers one of the top film producers in the world.

Founded in 1960, Paper Pak Industries is the largest manufacturer in North America dedicated solely to the manufacturing of absorbent mediums for the food, medical, automotive and marine industries.

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Zap and UltraZapEnviroPak Bio Poly absorbent food safety pads feature a polyethylene backing that will degrade (as per ASTM D3826) and biodegrade (as per ASTM D5988) in most municipal solid waste systems. The degradation is triggered by heat and UV light and is enhanced by mechanical stress and moisture

Founded in 1992, Metabolix, Inc. is an innovation driven bioscience company focused on providing sustainable solutions for the world's needs for plastics, chemicals and energy. The Company is taking a systems approach, from gene to end product, integrating sophisticated biotechnology with advanced industrial practice. Metabolix is now developing and commercializing Mirel™ bioplastics, a sustainable and biodegradable alternative to petroleum based plastics. Mirel is suitable for injection molding, cast and blown film, sheet, extrusion coating, and thermoforming. Metabolix is also developing a proprietary platform technology for co-producing plastics, chemicals and energy from crops such as switchgrass, oilseeds and sugarcane.

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